Dr. Margaret Danilovich is the senior director of the Leonard Schanfield Research Institute at CJE and an adjunct assistant professor at Northwestern where she directs the dual degree program in public health and physical therapy.  She earned a doctorate in physical therapy from Northwestern, a PhD in Public Health with a focus in Gerontology from UIC and is board certified in geriatric physical therapy. Margaret's research focuses on exercise interventions for older adults with frailty and has been funded by a variety of private foundations and the NIH. She currently is the recipient of 2 falls-prevention grants from the Administration for Community Living. She serves on the NIH study section review panel, has written over 20 peer reviewed publications, has authored columns on topics in aging for Crain's Chicago Business, the Huffington Post, and CNN, and frequently lectures and consults nationally on best practices in the care of older adults, especially related to the areas of frailty, fall-prevention, and exercise programming.

Dr. Jason Crandall is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Applied Science in Health & Aging at Western Kentucky University.  With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the United States Center for Medicare and Medicaid, and the Retirement Research Foundation, his research focuses on public health and health promotion programs for older adults and other special populations. He is the creator of the evidence-based program, Bingocize®, a health promotion program that increases functional performance, health knowledge, cognition, and social engagement in older adults with various physical and cognitive abilities. Bingocize® is approved by the National Council on Aging and the United States Department of Agriculture as an evidence-based falls prevention program and obesity prevention program, respectively. Communities in over 40 U.S. states, and four other countries currently use the Bingocize® program.

Kathleen Zuke was privileged to grow up with eight loving grandparents and developed a passion for supportive services for older adults as a caregiver for her grandfather. She has been a Senior Program Manager with the Center for Healthy Aging since 2015. In this role, she works collaboratively with community-based partners across the country to identify, implement, and sustain evidence-based programs that support older adults in staying well and aging in the community, including chronic disease self-management education, falls prevention, and behavioral health. She has a Master’s degree in Public Health from Hunter College and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.